196 Brewster on- a Collection of Arizona Birds . 
432, $ ad., Tucson, May 25. Length, 5.80 ; extent, 7.80; wing, 2.46; 
tail, 2.75. With nest and three eggs. 
442, $ ad., Tucson, May 27. Length, 5.80; extent, 8; wing, 2.58; 
tail, 3. 
582, $ ad., Camp Lowell. June 24. Length, 5.90; extent, 8.20; wing, 
2.55; tail, 2.91. 
74. Peucaea mflceps boucardi ( Scl .) Ridg. Boucard’s 
Sparrow. — These Sparrows were met with at Cave Creek, 
near Morse’s Mill, and in the Santa Rita Mountains. Among 
some notes taken at the first-named place I find the following : 
“I saw five of these Sparrows to-day [March 4] but two of 
them escaped me. They were in scrub-oaks on rocky hillsides, 
and were apparently mated. They acted somewhat like Wrens, j 
hiding among the rocks and flushing from the grass at a point j| 
some distance beyond where I would mark them down. Two 
went into the low branches of the oaks, from which I easily shot 
them. I have not found the species before in Arizona, but I took j 
several near Fort Bayard, New Mexico, in 1876.” A specimen j 
taken near the end of March was shot “on a ridge among thick 
brush,” while two others, obtained in the Santa Rita Mountains in 
May, occurred at a high elevation on similar ground. 
1, $ ad., Cave Creek, March 4. Length, 6.60; extent. 8.30; wing, 
2.80; tail, 3.29. 
2, $ ad., same locality and date. Length, 6.40; extent, 7.90; wing, 
2.60; tail, 3.02. 
3, $ ad., same locality and date. Length, 6.50; extent, 8.20. “Iris j 
brown; legs pale flesh-color; bill dark bluish slate-color.” 
138, $ ad., Chiricahua Mountains, March 31. Length, 6.50; extent, 
8.30; wing, 2.56; tail, 3.15. 
387, $ ad., Santa Rita Mountains, May 16. Length, 6. 10; extent, 8.10; 
wing, 2.58 ; tail, 2.95. “Iris brown ; bill blackish above, light bluish below ; 
legs pale flesh-color.” 
413, $ ad., Santa Rita Mountains, May 20. Length, 6.30; extent, 7.80; 
wing, 2.50; tail, 3. 
The specimens enumerated above represent true boucardi and are readily 
separable from Texas examples by the characters which my friend Mr. 
Brown has lately pointed out* in his diagnosis of the new race, eremceca. 
75. Melospiza fasciata fallax Baird. Western Song 
Sparrow. — Rather common about Tucson where they haunted 
willow thickets and tall marsh grass near water. 
258, $ ad., Tucson, April 21. Length, 6.30; extent, 8.20; wing, 2.60; 
tail, 2.98; culmen, .58. “Iris dark brown ; bill dark above, light below; 
legs light brown. With nest and three eggs.” 
* This Bulletin, Vol. VII, p. 26. 
